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A friend of mine brought B. J. Miller’s “Ted” talk, What really matters at the end of life, to my attention; here’s a little bit of it:
Over Zen Hospice’s nearly 3 years, we’ve learned much more from our residents in subtle detail. Little things aren’t so little. Take Janette. ...
A friend wrote me this:
Waking up this morning I had the clear realization of something rising with awareness from the lower dantian through the middle dantian, to the upper one as consciousness arose. I had precise awareness of the sensation moving through these points of reference. What was it? That’s not happened ...
I wrote:
Sometimes that activity of support for the fluid ball feels like this:
The empty hand grasps the hoe-handle
Walking along, I ride the ox
The ox crosses the wooden bridge
The bridge is flowing, the water is still
A friend of mine asked me, “How so?”; I wrote the following in a late-night response:
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